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There's one scene that never fails to make me laugh, no matter how many times I watch it: the segment from Beast With a Billion Backs where Farnsworth and the team are at the scientists convention led by Stephen Hawking.

Every time Hawking makes that "oooooo" noise I lose it. Every time.

Mine is the "I could fit if I didn't have these damn arms! Ein, ein, ein." from Fry and the Slurm Factory. But I like a lot of the wordplay in there with the "When can we have some slurm?" "Soon enough!" "That's not soon enough!" and the like.

Plus apparently the guy who designed the grunka lunkas had never seen Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

The guy who wrote the episode had never seen it before which is even more impressive.

How is that even possible? I'm assuming they came up with the general concepts before they were so obviously...tailored to fit.

There's one scene that never fails to make me laugh, no matter how many times I watch it: the segment from Beast With a Billion Backs where Farnsworth and the team are at the scientists convention led by Stephen Hawking.

Every time Hawking makes that "oooooo" noise I lose it. Every time.

Mine is the "I could fit if I didn't have these damn arms! Ein, ein, ein." from Fry and the Slurm Factory. But I like a lot of the wordplay in there with the "When can we have some slurm?" "Soon enough!" "That's not soon enough!" and the like.

Plus apparently the guy who designed the grunka lunkas had never seen Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

The guy who wrote the episode had never seen it before which is even more impressive.

How is that even possible? I'm assuming they came up with the general concepts before they were so obviously...tailored to fit.

I'm guessing he might have watched it once during the writing process to get the general feel of it but he didn't have the nostalgia that everyone else would have had (possibly) tainting the final result. I mean, most of the jokes in that episode weren't really related to things that happend in CatCF but about the world CatCF established

There's one scene that never fails to make me laugh, no matter how many times I watch it: the segment from Beast With a Billion Backs where Farnsworth and the team are at the scientists convention led by Stephen Hawking.

Every time Hawking makes that "oooooo" noise I lose it. Every time.

Mine is the "I could fit if I didn't have these damn arms! Ein, ein, ein." from Fry and the Slurm Factory. But I like a lot of the wordplay in there with the "When can we have some slurm?" "Soon enough!" "That's not soon enough!" and the like.

Plus apparently the guy who designed the grunka lunkas had never seen Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

The guy who wrote the episode had never seen it before which is even more impressive.

How is that even possible? I'm assuming they came up with the general concepts before they were so obviously...tailored to fit.

I'm guessing he might have watched it once during the writing process to get the general feel of it but he didn't have the nostalgia that everyone else would have had (possibly) tainting the final result. I mean, most of the jokes in that episode weren't really related to things that happend in CatCF but about the world CatCF established

An excellent opportunity to listen to the Fry and the Slurm Factory commentary!

...Apparently it is Matt Groening who had never seen the movie (and still hadn't by the time the commentary was recorded). They sent him rough drafts of the grunka lunkas that looked just like oompa loompas and said "These are horrible" and made them into the grunka lunkas.

Other highlights:

Lewis Morton - "The original name I had for Glurmo was Slurmy Slonka, which was ...uh..."
David Cohen - "Slurmy Slonka? You were going to have Slurms MacKenzie and Slurmy Slonka in the same episode?"
LM - "Yes...I'm very unimaginative."

John Dimaggio - "Who had the idea to put these shirts – those! The ones in Hebrew."
David Cohen - The Hebrew slurm?
John Dimaggio - Genius.
Lewis Morton - "I dunno...Well, I wrote the episode, so it must have been me!"
JD - "Yeah! You're a genius!"
LM - "The weird thing is, Hebrew Slurm looks almost exactly like 'shalom'"
DC - "To the point of being confusing."
Ron Hughart - "Yeah, we had to redesign that a couple of times, because of that."

I kind of wish it had been a porno. Would have made the plot make more sense.

I read the synopsis on Wikipedia and it still left porno status as being a viable option

When complications arise during her breast augmentation surgery, 20th-century exotic dancer Cleo (Jennifer Sky) is put into suspended animation. Waking 500 years in the future, Cleo joins two women in their fight against the Baileys, armed flying machines who now control Earth's surface. Her team leader, Hel (Gina Torres), is commanded by a mysterious female entity called "Voice," who relays orders via a communications implant under Hel's left ear. Voice controls many other teams and gives them their orders in a similar fashion, in effect forming a resistance to the Baileys, with their ultimate goal to retake the Earth's surface. Their final team member is Sarge (Victoria Pratt), whose sister belongs to a cult that regards the Baileys with reverence and willingly sacrifices themselves to them. Humanity has moved underground and built a complex of elaborate shafts and tunnels created by the "shaft builders" to survive the Bailey menace.